Taylor bemoans leaky defence April 28 2008
Goalkeeper Maik Taylor has admitted Birmingham are paying the price for conceding too many "soft goals" in their battle to survive in the Barclays Premier League.
Taylor is gearing up to face his former club Fulham in a crunch relegation encounter at Craven Cottage after seeing City again pay the price for sloppy defending against Liverpool.
Alex McLeish's side led 2-0 but gifted the Reds two goals and the 2-2 draw means they remain anchored in the bottom three with just two games remaining.
Northern Ireland number one Taylor said: "We wanted a reaction against Liverpool after the Aston Villa game - and we got it.
"But we've again given a soft goal away to let them back into the game and that has been the case for most of the season. Teams don't really have to work very hard to score past us.
"Sometimes we get into good positions but when a team has a good spell against us, which every team will do in the Premier League, we just don't seem able to shut up shop and weather the storm.
"It is very disappointing and something we need to look at. We will sit down and talk about it and iron a few things out and we will go forward.
"We are all in it together, we are 11 out there fighting for the cause, we all mean well but unfortunately teams have got at us and found it easy to score."
Taylor is aware that Blues have to pull out all the stops if they are to gain a positive result against Roy Hodgson's side.
He said: "We still have a fighting chance. We've got two massive games coming up. Fulham will have their tails up. They've had a great result at Manchester City.
"As a result they are still in the mix but we will work extremely hard throughout this coming week, look to sort a few things out and we will be ready for next weekend.
"We will get this weekend out of our system and then all our focus will be on Fulham."